The chart below shows the global sales of different kinds of digital games from 2000 to 2006.
The bar chart provides data about the global sales (in
billion
dollars
) of various digital games
between 2000 and 2006.
Overall
, we can see that the number
of sales of handheld games
, mobile phone games
and online games
increased in there years, while
the amount of console games
sales decreased every year. Moreover
, the graph shows that handheld games
are absolutely the preferred digital games
.
In fact, already in 2000 handheld games
have been sold for a total amount of almost 11 billion
dollars
; this
number
increased gradually each year, until 2006, when handheld games
fruited 18 billion
dollars
.
The chart illustrates that the selling of online games
started only in 2001, for less than 1 bn dollars
, but their popularity grew so much in the years: in 2006 online games
have been sold for nearly 9 billion
dollars
. Mobile phone games
showed a similar trend: the selling started just in 2002 and fruited about 1 billion
dollars
, but this
number
rose to 7 billions in 2006.
On the contrary
, the number
of console games
sold decreased gradually over the years, from 6 billion
dollars
in 2000 to 3 billions dollars
in 2006.Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Writing9 with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.
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